Jon Sarkin’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the MoMA Archives (Calvin Tomkins Papers), the Cape Ann Museum, the DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, and Pingry School.
JS-2023-1356
Signed: ↙
Condition: Good
Certificate of Authenticity included
Ships framed with 99% UV conservation glass
Right of first refusal retained by the estate.
OUT, OUT, BRIEF CANDLE, MACK "MACBETH" BETH. UTTERED... OR RATHER SOLILOQUIZED, BUT HIS REPTILLIAN BRAIN, HIS PONS, HIS MEDULLA OBLONGOTA, TO SOME EXTENT HIS CEREBELLUM (ON WHAT WAS LEFT OF IT), BUT…
$1,200.00
Why This Work Matters
“Sarkin’s work approaches what André Breton dreamed of but which most Surrealists never achieved: pure psychic automatism.”
Colin Rhodes — Distinguished Professor; Contributing Editor, Raw Vision; in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Featured in: Gloucester gallery opens to cement Jon Sarkin’s artistic legacy — Amelia Mason, WBUR, May 2025.